... on polite society. "I baptized you with water," John warned, "but he will consume you with fire!" John was the last of the Old Testament prophets, a transitional figure like Samuel of old, standing between the judges and the kings. John could sing Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" better than that raspy-voiced seer of the American Cultural Revolution ever would. John realized that tectonic plates were colliding, the old order was passing more quickly than a Bob Dylan song, and few would enter the New Age ...
